THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1051

whero River; on the South by Te Maire and
Pikopiko No. 1 Blocks; and on the West by Native
land.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-fifth day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.
JOHN SHEEHAN.

Amended Regulations under "The Mines Act, 1877."

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of "The
Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as "the
said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said
Act, from time to time to make, alter, amend, and
revoke rules and regulations for all or any of the
purposes thereinafter enumerated: And whereas
by the fifty-third section of the said Act it is enacted
that the rules and regulations contained in the
appendices to the said Act shall be deemed to be the
first rules and regulations made under the fifty-first
and fifty-second sections of the said Act: And
whereas by an instrument under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor, published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, certain
regulations purporting to be amendments of regula-
tions respecting agricultural leases under Appendix
B to the said Act were made: And whereas in
accordance with section fifty-two of the said Act the
said amended regulations, gazetted on the twelfth
day of June last, were, on the seventeenth instant,
laid before both Houses of the General Assembly:
And whereas the Gold Fields Committee of the
House of Representatives, on the twenty-second
instant, recommended that the said amended regula-
tions should be revoked before the thirtieth instant:
And whereas the said recommendation was ordered
by the House of Representatives to be referred to
the Government: And whereas it is expedient that
effect should be given to the said recommendation:
Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robin-
son, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby order that the said amended regulations
respecting agricultural leases, published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, shall be
and are hereby revoked.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-eighth day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.
W. GISBORNE.

Land temporarily reserved in the Provincial District
of Wellington.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and forty-fourth
section of "The Land Act, 1877," it is enacted
that the Governor may from time to time, either by
general or particular description, and whether the
same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale
temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be
then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands
which in his opinion are required for any of the
purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Sir Hercules George Robert
Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zea-
land, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby
temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Pro-
vincial District of Wellington described in the Sche-
dule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said
Schedule specified.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand,
containing by admeasurement 3,024 acres, more or
less: Commencing at a point being the eastern corner
of Section No. 416, Hutt District, and following
along the boundaries of the land previously reserved
for the Wellington and Masterton Railway by an
Order in Council dated the 12th day of December,
1876, the said boundaries running in the following
directions: Easterly, 11900 links; thence south-
easterly, 4700 links; thence north-easterly, 2050 links;
thence south-easterly, 3200 links; thence following
the western bank southerly of the Pakuratahi River ;
thence south-easterly, 8600 links; thence easterly,
3200 links, to a stream running parallel with the
Wellington and Masterton Railway; thence down
the said stream to a point opposite the 36th mile-peg
on railway aforesaid; thence in a due west direction
for a distance of 15000 links; thence north-westerly,
26400 links, to the south corner of Section No. 416,
Hutt District; and thence along the south-eastern
boundary of the said Section No. 416 for a distance
of 1300 links to the starting point: as the same is
delineated upon the sketch map deposited in the
Public Works Department, Wellington, and marked
P.W.D. 7078. For the purpose of railways.

Also all that other parcel of land in the said
provincial district, containing by admeasurement
601 acres, more or less: Commencing at a
point 4400 links north from the south-east corner
of Section No. 6 of the Pakuratahi District;
thence following in an easterly direction for
a distance of 17885 links; thence southerly for
37 links; thence south-south-easterly, 1645 links;
thence following along the northern boundary of the
land previously described as a reserve, westerly 9700
links, south-westerly 6600 links, southerly 3250 links,
to the Pakuratahi River; thence along and down the
north bank of the said river in a northerly direction
to the south boundary of Section No. 6 of the Pakura-
tahi District; thence following along its eastern
boundary for a distance of 4400 links to the starting
point: as the same is delineated upon the sketch map
deposited in the Public Works Department, Wel-
lington, and marked P.W.D. 7078. For the purpose
of railways.

And also all that other parcel of land in the said
provincial district, containing by admeasurement
1,245 acres, more or less: Commencing at the north-
west corner of Section No. 95 of the Western Lake
District; thence along the following boundaries: The
northern boundary of of Section 95, 566 links; north-
west of Sections 96 and 98, 10933 links; south-
wester, north-western, and north-eastern boundaries
of Section 97, 1465, 1805, and 4655 links respectively;
thence along the north-western boundary of Section
No. 88, 220, 4074, and 865 links; thence follow-
ing in a general north-westerly direction for a
distance of 5405 links and 12988 links to the
north-eastern boundary of the land previously
reserved for the Wellington and Masterton Railway;
thence following the said reserve in a south-easterly
and southerly direction for 4300, 1950, and 1600
links; thence along the top of range, and 7800 links
to the starting point: as the same is delineated upon
the sketch map deposited in the Public Works
Department, Wellington, and marked P.W.D. 7078.
For the purpose of railways.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twenty-second day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.

JAMES W. THOMSON,
Minister of Lands.